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2 July 17,1 973 gogflnpltg Uimt King of Afghanistan Didn't Try to Warn Nixon jpy ITT I i I iV If -f I i i i. I mmi -f jV 4 AoW rw A- Or Attorney Admits He Kept Silent Despite His Mounting Suspicions in Coup rwmn.ii.nm, yi ic WASHINGTON U) Attorney Herbert W. Kalmbach admitted today he made no attempt to relay his mounting suspicions about secret fund raising for Watergate defendants to his client, Richard Kalmbach repeatedly Insisted in testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee that he first agreed June to raise the funds be-, cause it was incomprehensible to him that White House aides John W. Dean III or John D. Ehrlichman would ask him to do anything im- proper, But within about two months, Kalmbach said, concern about the secrecy of the $220,000 operation and news stories about Watergate caused him to stop collecting 'the; money, No Contact With Nixon "And you made no attempt at that point in time to contact your client, the President of the United States?" asked Sen.

Lowell Weicker Jr. "No sir, I did not," Kalmbach replied. "Are you now convinced, that you were involved in a criminal activity?" asked Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii).

"I now realize from what Mr. Dean has testified that it was an improper, an illegal act," Kalmbach said. Through the morning session Kalmbach repeated details of the fund raising which he had outlined when he first took the witness chair Monday. While the committee continued to interrogate Kalmbach, members of its staff pursued Monday's disclosure that tapes exist of all of Mr. Nixon's White House meetings and telephone calls since 1971.

The committee is to hold a closed meeting Wednesday, where it is expected members will discuss how to go about getting the tapes. Kalm RELUCTANT WITNESS Egil Krogh, right, with his attorney, Stephen N. Shulman, prior to appearance before House subcommittee where he refused to testify on break-in of psychiatrist's office. i (l WlrePhota KROGH TAKES THE FIFTH' ON ELLSBERG BREAK-IN Former White House Aide Refuses to Tell House Probe What He Knows About Burglary of Psychiatrist's Office Trade Inducements for Russia Pushed by David Rockefeller Overthrown Ex-Prime Minister, Cousin of Monarch, Proclaims Republic NEW DELHI Radio Kabul in Afghanistan announced today the overthrow of the Afghan monarchy in favor of a republic "in accord with the genuine spirit of Islam." The republic was proclaimed by Lt. Gen.

Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan, 64, brother-in-law and cousin of King Mohammed Zahir Shah "and a former prime minister. The radio broadcast a speech by Daud saying Afghanistan would hold to its traditional foreign policy of nonalignment and would not join any military pacts. A country of 13.6 million people, Afghanistan is landlocked in central Asia between the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan and Iran. Its 250,000 square miles are largely mountainous. The radio broadcast did not mention 59-year-old King Zahir Shah who came to the throne in 1933 at the age of 19 following the assassination of his father.

Proclamation of the republic, however, would mean the end of his reign. Taking Health Treatment The king was in Italy, taking health treatment on the island of Ischia In the Bay of Naples. An aide reported he was informed of the coup but for the' time being had no comment on it. Radio Kabul said the deposed regime was "false" and had brought the country to "near bankruptcy." Daud and his followers, it said, promised to lead Afghanistan to real democracy and neutrality. In his speech Daud called the former government a corrupt system and declared it "no longer exists and the new system replacing it is the republican system which is in accord with the genuine spirit of Islam." He bitterly attacked the king's 10-year-old constitution which provided a limited parliamentary government although all essential powers, including appointment of the prime minister, remained with the monarch, -rj.

He described the old system as "a pseudo democracy, the foundations of which rested on personal and class interests." 'False Propaganda' "No amount of false propaganda during these 10 years could draw a veil over the facts and nothing could hide from the people of Afghanistan and the world the fact hat Afghanistan was heading a total bankruptcy economically, administratively and socially," Daud said. "And the upshot of all this was that instead of. democracy, that is peoples' government, and constitutional monarchy, they got a despotic regime." Afghanistan has been hit by drought for the last three years, and an estimated persons nave died from widespread famine. Last December, Parliament ousted Prime Minister Abdul Zahir and his cabinet on a vote of no confidence. He was accused of failing to deal effectively with the drought.

Wooed With Aid Abdul Zahir's foreign minister, Dr. Musa Shafiq, became prime minister and has now been deposed. Shafiq, 40, is a graduate of Columbia University law school and was one of the drafters of the 1964 constitution. In the years when czarist Russia was extending its influence in central Asia and Britain controlled India, both Russia and Britain sought the favor of the Afghans. But after World War I and the Russian Revolution, both Britain and the new Soviet regime signed treaties with Afghanistan and the country receded as an area of competition.

Now both the Soviet Union and China maintain big missions in Kabul and woo the Afghans with aid and development funds. The country also receives economic aid from the United States. In 1971 this amounted to nearly $9 million. King Zahir's constituion of 1964 banned all members of the royal family, Including Daud, from taking part in politics. Daud, who was prime minister from 1953 to 1963, complained then about inability to achieve more popular participation in government.

Mrs. Steorts, who lives in suburban Sumner, comes to the consumer-affairs post which pays $23,088 a year with a background in retail merchandising, fashions and public relations. Mrs. Steorts, a 1959 graduate of Syracuse University in her home town, said she doesn't agree that consumers are to blame for high prices. But she did emphasize her view of an urgent "need to communicate better with the consumer." She spoke of a "need to educate at both levels" in the home and in the government.

Her background in civic groups, especially leadership positions within the American Assn. of University Women, enables her to almbach bach contradicted testimony given earlier, by Dean and former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell. Dean had told the committee that when he met" Kalmbach 'June 28, 1972, to ask him to raise money for the Watergatei.

defendants, "I told him everything that I knew about the case at that time." Sen. 'Joseph M. Montoya read a portion of Dean's testimony to Kalmbach, including the assertion that "I told him that I was very concerned that this could lead right to the President," and asked Kalmbach if that account of their meeting was correct. Kalmbach said he recalled that Dean indicated that "I being asked to raise funds for the legal defense of these people and for the support of the families," "Did he mention possible involvement of the White House?" Montoya asked. "No, sir," said Kalmbach.

Mitchell testified last week that he didn't know there had been any money left over from the 1968 Nixon campaign. Kalmbach said he had custody of nearly $1.7 million in such funds and told Mitchell at various times that he had such surplus under his control. Weicker arid Inouye pressed Kalmbach on why he had no early suspicions about the fund raising for the Watergate defendants despite the almost immediate use of code names, baggage locker money drops and cash To a Weicker question, Kalmbach replied: "Senator, I was acting in a certain belief that a moral obligation was felt to exist on the part of someone that the money should be given to these people for their legal defense and for the support of their families, and again, Senator, I felt in my own mind that it was a very human thing to do." Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey cautioned that the United States could overextend its financial resouces by borrowing to provide credit for massive Soviet food and technological purchases, while continuing the "insane" arms race with the Soviet Union.

"They are getting the best of both worlds," Humphrey said, "by getting our credits and putting their resources into weapons expansion." Humphrey said, however, he favors East-West trade and suggested that the United States regulate its credits on the basis of accomplishments in arms reductions. Rockefeller disagreed. "We haven't stopped the arms race by withholding exports (in the past)" he said. He predicted the Russians would retain their present governmental structure and form of socialism, but that modifications would come in their social system through a clamor for a higher standard of living as the Russian people became exposed to Western consumerism through trade. announcement would come late in the day, after the stock markets closed.

Shultz indicated that there still were some finishing touches to be put on the program but that all necessary policy decisions had been made by Mr. Nixon. Sitting in with Shultz on the meeting with Mr. Nixon were the President's chief -domestic advisers, Melvin R. Laird and Bryce Harlow.

of Purchasers Tax Rebellion charges of possessing counterfeit IRS seizure stickers. He is, in return, seeking a court injunction to keep the IRS from investigating his bank records. His book urges citizens to refuse to pay income taxes on the basis of the Fourth and Fifth amendments, which prohibit unreasonable searches and taking of property without due process of law. Several persons who have purchased the book have charged the IRS made intimidating phone calls to them. The IRS admits calling some of the purchasers whose names it obtained with the subpoena, but says the calls were made only to determine whether the $1 checks were taxable or not.

the question on grounds it might tend to incriminate me." Nedzi said Krogh's lawyer, Stephen Shulman, told the subcommittee at the outset that Krogh would have to refuse to answer most questions because of investigations of the White House "plumbers" unit under way in Washington and by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury. Krogh is reported to have invoked the Fifth Amendment also when questioned in Los Angeles. President Nixon's former top domestic aide, John D. Ehrlichman, supervised the Krogh unit's activities, but he has said he did not learn of the burglary until after it happened. Krgh has said in an affida-vit thai 'Ehrlichman authorized "covert activities," but that when Ehrlichman learned of the break-in he said Krogh exceeded his instructions.

Robert E. Cushman, former deputy CIA "director, has told Nedzi's subcommittee that the agency supplied identification papers, a tape recorder, and voice-altering devices that wound up being used in the burglary because Ehrlichman had asked it to cooperate. Ehrlichman told the subcommittee he did not remember that conversation with Cushman. Charges against Ellsberg in connection with leaking of the then-classified Pentagon Papers were dismissed in Los Angeles largely because of the government's disclosure of the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. The burglary by Cubans later convicted of the Watergate break-in allegedly was directed in Beverly Hills by Watergate conspirators E.

Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. Hunt and Liddy were members of the White House intelligence unit, which was headed by Krogh and by National Security Council aide David Young. WASHINGTON (UPI) David Rockefeller, board chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, urged Congress today to grant most1 favored nation trading status to the Soviet Union, claiming the move could help slow the arms race. "The desire of the Soviets to use Western trade, credits and technology to bolster their own economy hopefully could be accompanied by their giving lower priority to military programs," Rockefeller testified.

He was appearing before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress at the start of three days of hearings on the Soviet economic outlook. "It is premature to conclude that military, competition the Soviet Union and the United States is at an end," Rockefeller said. The committee Sen. William Proxmire said one of the main issues between the United States and the Soviet Union is whether such action would increase the possibility that fewer resources will be directed to Soviet military programs. King Mohammed Zahir Shah un Wireshot France Flays US.

-Farm Export Policy as BRUSSELS (UPI) Prance Insisted today that the European Common Market take immediate action to protect its food supplies from "American aggression." French Agriculture Minister Jacques Chirac said farm ministers of the nine Common Market nations meeting here should take steps to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency." The partial U.S. embargo on soy-" bean exports, he said, showed the danger of depending on "the whims of foreigners" for vital supplies. The agricultural ministers are in the second day off a two-day ing. The meeting was dominated by the U.S. export limits.

American dip- lomats said the Europeans over-or- dered from American farmers and '1 the limits would have little effect. 5 But the Europeans said the States provides 60 of protein needs for European livestock and the limits would hurt European pork, poultry, beef and dairy pro-'" ducts. Tax Authority Granted The. ministers gave the Common Market's executive commission thority to tax exports of Europeans-wheat and barley or ban them al--' together if world prices of the com-modities rise 2 above European prices. But Chirac demanded more.

Common Market spokesmen and' other ministers quoted him as tell-ing the meeting that the "American agression" on world farm markets indicated the need for Europe to protect itself by becoming self-suff i-' cient. He suggested immediate ef- forts to increase production of such 1 soya substitutes as skim powdered milk. Other ministers tried to calm Chirac's anger. Britain's Joseph Godber warned against "too much panic" in responding to the. Ameri- can moves.

GETTY TO REFUSE 1 TO PAY RANSOM FOR HIS GRANDSON LONDON m. Oil' billionaire Paul Getty says he will not pay ransom for his grandson if he proves to have been kidnaped, an aide to magnate said today. "I love the boy, but I'm against paying any money," he said. "It only encourages kidnapers." Getty, 80, made his comments initially to the London Daily Mail. An aide of Getty confirmed the quotes.

Getty said he was "not all that close" to. his 16-year-old grandson who disappeared in Rome more than a week ago. Problem "relate to the concerns of organized f-groups," she added. Personally, she said, "I am not one that would have participated" in the meat boycott this spring. The was organized by housewives, predominantly, to protest rising costs of beef, and other popular -meats.

"There are other ways to effec- tively show disapproval," she added that the boycott had an advantage in bringing food prices. "more to the public mind." Mrs. Steorts sees her new job as bringing more positive information from the Agriculture Department to the public and conveying to the department the feelings of that public Accession WASHINGTON UP! Former White House aide Egil Krogh Jr. refused to tell a House armed forces subcommittee today what he knows about the 1971 burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Chairman Lucien N.

Nedzi (D-Mich.) said Krogh refused to answer all questions on grounds of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination except for details on his employment before 1968. Krpgh has publicly taken "full responsibility" for the Sept. 3, 1971, break-in of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in Beverly Hills as part of a probe into the Pentagon Papers leak to the press. Krogh headed the so-called White House, "plumbers" unit set up to find the' source' of news leaks. But Nedzi said all questions on the burglary and other aspects of alleged attempts to involve the CIA in Watergate got the same answer from Krogh: "Mr.

Chairman, I refuse to answer U.S., Japan Agree to Study Energy TOKYO (UPI) Japan and the-United States ended two days of economic talks today with a pledge to cooperate in dealing with the world's energy crisis. The two nations also discussed an exchange of visits by President Nixon and Japanese Emperor Hirohito, but Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira told a news conference, "We merely agreed this matter should be left to the judgment of the two heads of state." Secretary of State William P. Rogers, who headed the American delegation to the ninth meeting of the United States-Japan Joint Economic Committee, was scheduled to leave Tokyo on Wednesday for a three-day visit to South Korea. "The committee affirmed the importance to both Japan and the United States of a continuing and broad exchange of views on the problem of ensuring future supplies of petroleum, enriched uranium and other energy sources," a final communique said. Rogers and Ohira agreed on a joint approach to the question of investing in development of oil and natural gas resources in Soviet Siberia, including a billion-dollar, pipeline from the Tyumen oil fields in the Urals to the Pacific Coast.

Rogers told a news conference the United States' regretted embarrassment to Japan caused by the Aug. 29 embargo on exports of soybean products. WATERGATE'S DESIGNER DIES From Rtuttrs ROME Luigi MorettI, the Italian architect who designed Washington's Watergate complex, has died at the age of 66, it was learned here today. Moretti, who also designed the Rome Olympic Village and the Montreal stock exchange tower, died while sailing with friends off the Corsican Coast on Saturday. SHULTZ VISITS NIXON Phase IV Details Wednesday FEATURE INDEX BOOK REVIEW.

View, Page 6. BRIDGE. View, Page 8. CLASSIFIED. Part 5, Pages 1-22.

COMICS. View, Page 15. CROSSWORD. Part 5, Page 22. EDITORIALS, COLUMNS.

Part 2, Pages 6, 7. FILMS. View, Pages 9-13. METROPOLITAN NEWS. Part 2.

MUSIC. View, Page 10 12. SPORTS. Part 3, Pages 1-9. TV-RADIO.

View, Page 14. VITALS. WEATHER. Part 1, Page 22. WOMEN'S.

View, Pages 1-8. BUYS QUALITY INSTEAD OF CONVENIENCE Consumer Aide 'Solves1 Price WASHINGTON (PUI)-Phase IV economic controls will be unveiled Wednesday, Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz said today after conferring with President Nixon. "We have all the presidential guidance we need," Schultz told reporters on emerging from a two-hour meeting in Mr Nixon's suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Shultz said previously that any IRS Checks List of Book Urging SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Internal Revenue Service has a list of purchasers of a book on tax rebellion, and it intends to make sure they don't follow the book's advice.

The IRS subpoenaed records of a bank account maintained by Karl J. Bray of Orem, Utah, author of "Taxation and Tyranny." It obtained the names of persons who paid for the $1 book by check. "If we had a list of subscribers to a book advocating disobedience to the tax laws, we'd be dilatory in our duty if we didn't check next April 15 to see if each of them has filed a return," said IRS Intelligence Supervisor Richard C. Hymas. Bray Is under indictment on WASHINGTON (Agriculture Secretary Earl L.

Butz's new special assistant for consumer affairs has reacted to the highest consumer food prices in 20 years by reordering her priorities in the grocery store. Nancy H. Steorts, 36, said in an interview after her appointment was announced that she is "putting my emphasis now on the quality foods" when shopping for herself, her department store executive husband and their 10-year-okl daughter. More of her grocery bill goes to "good meat and good produce rather than our convenience foods, snacks and things like that.".